Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Full as a Goog

Stubbsies (774 ABC radio) attempt to get to the bottom of the egg expression yesterday got me thinking .
It maybe just that the connection to "full as a boot" in Australia conjures up the picture of a man egg shaped and about to fall over .He may be satisfied but he's about to fall over .The king of Denmark . Not a animation but a picture with animation implications .  Did we not call the difficult boiled egg on the table before us a "goog"? Unstable
Unstable - that's the scene in the Kings court in Hamlet . The place is fulla words and its hard to tell whose the most unstable.

But there is more . I personally love the picture created in Psalm 23 of a cup running over .Not a animation but a picture with action implications .

Half empty is often how we feel and see our condition. To have the glass filled to overflowing is the idea of grace .By ourselves we seldom get there, but we can be places where the sense of grace is overwhelming . Outside and outside of ourselves. There was a feeling of empty words in the kings court
 We are at best , two people;  The best and worst of us is in there . Which means at the best of times we are lucky to be half full.
Our literature and language can carry the best and worst of life... especially when they condense it or even give what appears to be static action implications .Not a animation but a picture with future action implications .
"Full "carries the idea of complete or end . Overflowing is a good followup phase and so is ditching the whole lot if it doesn't make sense . Somehow you know when people are pasting over crap to make their logic look good . Yet Eve did it so well as did the Devil so we need to watch out .  The problem is we seldom see it when we are doing it so it "never happens" .   Love the way in Hamlet the author is always taking of seeing things and not seeing things  . Keep it simple or entirely pointed OR we will rightly call you fulla ........as Hamlet said of Polonius ( his castigation by Hamlet was edited out of the recent short versions)

So, WHY do we  put up with the long winded or worse; those who love the sound of words so much they daily try to fill us up ( overfull as it happens ) with them .Hamlet knew the words of court were a cover and remained angry - the place was fulla crap.and that crap kept many from seeing through it .  We called them snow jobs when i was working
The Greeks and modern media pedants will cut the discussion before it completes itself  or the honest one goes another rage ( Hamlet wants empty, not full ) ---The paradox with our Colosseum concerts is that we get indigestion -  fulla than we can bear but no closure. Sometimes the audience have the strange satisfaction of seeing some apparently ignorant person crucified .( reality TV seems to B the popular choice for many in the evenings ) The media pedants  move us on and yet we must be mad; .. we pay them to do it.  Get your poly to move them on so we have some choice .We may not have history classes on the ABC ( significantly), but we most certainly have Colosseum gatherings at the Emperors expense everyday.Progressives don't believe the past matters but they play old games -Trouble with any faith is----- it puts the blinkers on
.Sound  proverbs on the other hand can carry us forward and help us reflect backward without getting lost in the pile of words . We of the information age should know this;   that simple phrases are our best recreation .

Richard Stubbs is aware of this, but here's a rarity in his neighborhood . We love words; (Everyone on connect at the ABC)  We just hate a pile of words. who can tell the difference . Hamlet can but the court thought he was the one whose words were mad .The court had madness in mind but Hamlets mind focused on the short and sweet ( not that there was much of that ) Sometimes the best view is by looking both ways - "takes one to know one".
Promoters of this word flooding problem are a little harder to pick cause we pay them to fill us up . Polonius was the paid wordsmith in the Kings Court and Hamlet told him to piss off. We should do the same, as should polys .ABC now gets switched off quite commonly --
Love  the term "Fulla shit". It means an end to the filling process ; whatever good words and ideas the medium contains,  its not complete - so I'm off . we're off -the pile stinks even though to the owner well spoken , with good accent and good discretion ". Somebody paid for it and I am quite clear we should cut some of them off ."You have to watch the watchers ".   they do go but for us --real  life  no only must go on- makes more sense that a tirade of words.

His line today " as full as a goog" is one of those images that carries weight because it carries the perfect weight . Its a picture of completion . Its common use may be to do with the condition of a full stomach but I have a feeling its more not about % empty space . To gain common use at the table of our forebears I reckon is has to be a compliment as well as a condition . We have had enough - just the right and perfect amount..  In our house it was used to describe the condition of satience- the right amount of soup,sweet and whatever . It was a message to the cook who wanted to hear yes , not I'm full "( which is crass and thick just like the pedant might be at this point)  but i'm talking feeling here "I have had enough; just enough" - her /his purpose .

There is just enough inside the shell to complete it . The size does not matter . The contents though are good and in the old word, complete and perfect.
Which comes first ?no which comes last ? the egg she is perfect ,More complete even that  the seed or the ova . A perfect marriage that is the only way to really produce something really new .
So complete ( Most of us see children, however broken physically and genetically)
No amount of courtiers and words in the rational court of the rich chattering class will  add to or explain away this picture reality of completeness . The perfection of a new life born from this shape,  this space .
As David Attenborough harps on about why the sudden appearance of Tribolities should surpass any interest in the Trinity,  I have a feeling that he might still be puzzled by the egg . AS students of biolog over the last 30 years alone know there are now  too many eggs in his basket of eggs and rotten egg arguments to not wonder about both the egg and chicken maker and His purpose.Unlike out computers - it works; Its good :Its perfect.( not the way pedants use this word )